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ἐγχέλειος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἐγχέλειος ἐγχέλειᾱ ἐγχέλειον

Structure: ἐγχελει (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. of an eel, eel's flesh

Examples

  • Θεόφιλοσ δ’ ἐν Ιἀτρῷ ἅμα σκώπτων αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ἐν λόγοισ ψυχρὸν πᾶσ δὲ φιλοτίμωσ πρὸσ αὐτὸν τῶν νεανίσκων ἔχει ` ἐγχέλειον, παρατέθεικε τῷ πατρί. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 24 5:3)
  • οἱ δὲ χορηγοὶ τοῖσ χορευταῖσ ἐγχέλεια καὶ θριδάκια καὶ σκελίδασ καὶ μυελὸν παρατιθέντεσ, εὐώχουν ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον φωνασκουμένουσ καὶ τρυφῶντασ. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 6 2:4)
  • οἱ δὲ χορηγοὶ τοῖσ χορευταῖσ ἐγχέλεια καὶ θριδάκια καὶ σκελίδασ καὶ μυελὸν παρατιθέντεσ, εὐώχουν ἐπὶ πολὺν χρόνον φωνασκουμένουσ καὶ τρυφῶντασ. (Plutarch, De gloria Atheniensium, section 6 10:1)
  • τὸ δὲ ἐγχέλειον; (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 14, book 14, chapter 81 4:11)
  • ἐγχέλεια, καράβουσ, κόγχασ, ἐχίνουσ προσφάτουσ, μηκώνια, πίνασ, τραχήλουσ, μύασ. (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 3, book 3, chapter 34 2:2)

Synonyms

  1. of an eel

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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